Why doctors love SERMO

“I can speak freely because I am anonymous.
I don't have to worry about my words getting
back to a hospital administrator.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Exciting doctor interaction, very helpful with difficult cases, very interesting social topics and discussions… It is a form of collective intelligence that allows individuals to achieve more than they could on their own.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Being a semi-anonymous environment actually allows for more honest and useful advice and comments. I get enough daily BS, PC crap in real life. I don't need more in the virtual life.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“You can’t just Google medicine, you need a human source. We have to go beyond ‘cookbook’ medicine, and seek reasonable, experienced minds to think through difficult and diverse cases.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“If it was real life, we’d all hang out.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Diverse. Interactive. Interesting and also sometimes funny. One does not feel alone.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Medicine is fun, when it’s without the intrusion of multiple third parties. We love posting cases on SERMO...we get to practice medicine even if we don’t get paid for it.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Doctors don't have the time to come to a real doctors' lounge any more. On SERMO we can ask questions and share our lives and frustrations. Whenever we feel stressed out, we come to get support and find it. Any time of the day.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“I actually shared a medical mistake for the benefit of my peers on SERMO...but would not have done so if I was identified.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Regulators are forcing us to comply with rules and docs hardly get a voice. We’re made to feel isolated and alone. It’s overwhelming but SERMO is THE place where we can finally talk and feel like we are not alone. We know that we’re all in the same boat.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“I think SERMO has nailed it. If I want to read a clinical discussion, I can do that. If I want to read something funny, I can do that. If I want to get into politics, I can do that. If I need help with a patient, I have a place to do that.”

Why doctors love SERMO

“Had I not read a post on SERMO, I would not have nailed the diagnosis.”

Why doctors love SERMO

"Medicine should have a unified world community. Despite political, cultural and ethnic differences, people have the same enemy: disease and everyday problems… I learned many things and have made many doc-friends. Thank you”

Why doctors love SERMO

“These days doctors are super busy and don’t have time to stop what they are doing and find a colleague with the appropriate expertise.”

Why doctors love SERMO

[SERMO] is the only forum that I know of that has been able to provide a safe atmosphere for us [doctors] to talk with each other in the same language. It has also been a place where I have felt welcome and received a lot of support when I have needed it.

What doctors can do on SERMO

SOLVE

Medical crowdsourcing in action

Help your peers by sharing and
solving challenging cases!
Converse with your colleagues and
help us build the largest medical
databank of real live cases,
questions and answers.

RATE

For doctors, by doctors

Read real reviews of treatments from around the world and leave your own feedback for peers

DISCUSS

Talk with your peersabout real world medicine.

EARN

Get paid for your perspective

SERMO disburses more honoraria to doctors than most any other organization in the world. Last year SERMO paid out $16 Million USD in honoraria to doctors worldwide.

SERMO in the news

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Here are the apps that will provide healthcare technicians with an advantage in 2017

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Experts say new Drug Ratings Tool is groundbreaking

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Meet the Facebook for doctors

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As the latest Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act begins its death rattle, a growing number of physicians worry that any solution Washington proposes will not fix the nation's ailing health care system.

Board Certification and Fees Anger Doctors

Dr. Jonathan Weiss is tired of passing exams. A triple-board-certified physician from upstate New York, Dr. Weiss retakes a long written test in each of his specialties — internal, pulmonary and critical care medicine — every 10 years to maintain his board certification.

Docs To Candidates: Your Ideas For Slashing Drug Prices Won't Work

The top Democratic presidential candidates will be heading to the debate stage tonight, and the problem of sky-high drug prices could very well end up on the agenda.

Innovating the doctor’s lounge

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Crowdsourcing: the answer for rare disease diagnosis?

The main challenges in the diagnosis of rare disease are apparent, there are 7,000 identified rare diseases with hundreds of new diseases being discovered annually.

Doctor Participation Drops As Obamacare Enrollment Begins

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Less than half of global doctors convinced on biosimilars; poll

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Could New ICD-10 Medical Codes Put the Health Industry in Sick Bay?

October is the first month health insurers and medical-care providers have to use new government-mandated ICD-10 medical codes.

Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients

More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey.

Doctors are cutting opioids, even if it harms patients

More than half of doctors across America are curtailing opioid prescriptions, and nearly 1 in 10 have stopped prescribing the drugs, according to a new nationwide online survey.

The unproven benefit of awareness campaigns

As October wanes, so recedes from sight the plethora of pink ribbons, pink merchandise, pink this and pink that—the now familiar symbols of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Doubts remain as California allows girls and women to get more birth control without a prescription

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The word “provider” should be politically incorrect

It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term “provider” has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

It turns out that when Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a name?” he didn’t have medical providers in mind. In the last decade, the nondescript and confusing term “provider” has crept into the American medical lexicon thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...

Physician Social Media 101

Many doctors are on the fence about whether using social media is beneficial to their practice. A number of physicians are concerned that patients may attempt to contact them through social media sites, which can encroach on ‘off duty’ time when arrangements for on call colleagues to cover patient matters have already been put in place.

How to Get More Students to Become Physicians

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